I’ll be hosting a Q&A after a screening of George Romero’s classic zombie film “Night of the Living Dead,” in which a deadly plague unleashes all manner of mayhem, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on May 19 at 7:30. The event is part of the “Science on Screen” program which explores the surprising connections between movies and real-life science. There’ll be necrophilia! Cannibalism! Incest! Plus of course, a showing of the film itself. Just kidding. But it will be a fun evening–tix are $13, $10 for students. Check it out here.
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The pop science radio show Radiolab features yours truly–as well as science journalist David Quammen and Oxitec’s Hadyn Perry–now available as a fun 20-minute podcast. Their angle? Can we “kill ’em all.” Check it out here.
Nearly 1 million people have viewed the video of my TED talk on malaria on the TED.com site, and another nearly 50,000 on YouTube. Imagine a world in which print media had such reach? Wow. If you haven’t seen it, check it out here.
I’ll be giving a talk about malaria at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh, Scotland this June. The session I’m in is called “Listening to Nature,” and the other speakers include the bee scholar Maria Spivak, and the conservationist and sound archivist Bernie Kraus (check out his very cool “Wild Sanctuary” here) among others. Best of all–Edinburgh! in June! Video of the talk is scheduled to post on TED.com in October.
January 22, 2014-May 14, 2014. “New approaches to science journalism.” Ottaway Professor of Journalism at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
May 6, 2013. “Why is there so much malaria in the world?” Guest lecture. “Disease and Civilization,” Gallatin School, New York University. New York, NY.
If Kate Winslet can't make epidemiology alluring, nobody can.
My review of the Soderbergh film “Contagion,” where I consider the public health implications of the blockbuster movie, is now up at The Lancet. Check it out here.
When my kids were small, we moved to Australia for 3 years, thanks to a post-doc my husband (a biologist) took on at James Cook University in lovely north Queensland. Besides eating a lot of mangoes and hanging out in hammocks, we all became citizens of Australia. Which is why it is now possible for my work to be considered Australian–and for “The Fever” to be excerpted in NewSouth’s 2011 edition of Best Australian Science Writing. Book to appear in November. Thank you Oz!
Picador has released the paperback edition of “The Fever.” I hope this much more affordable edition will find its way into more readers’ hands. Please do pass it on! Check it out at Amazon.com here.
A strange and lovely film, which I reviewed for The Lancet. Check it out here. It’s worth watching just for the “wabi-sabi,” that is, the Japanese principle of finding beauty in transient and imperfect things, which animates the film. It’s an original for sure: a sci-fi romance about organ transplantation starring Hollywood A-listers such as Keira Knightley, which is unexpectedly beautiful to behold.
Sonia’s latest book: The Next Great Migration
Sonia’s latest story in the New Yorker magazine
Sonia’s latest story in the New York Times Magazine
Sonia on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Sonia on HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, February 15, 2021 episode, "The Next Pandemic"
Ted Talks
"How Unhealthy Paradigms Become Contagious"
"Three Reasons We Still Haven't Got Rid of Malaria"
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